The Not-To-Do List for 2021

2020 didn’t go as planned. Let’s make sure we learn from it and make 2021 better.

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Last year, I published my Not-To-Do list for the first time. It’s my type new year’s resolution, because I believe that new year’s resolutions don’t work.

The Not-To-Do List for 2020

New year’s resolutions add to our life: do more of this, do more of that. But in reality, our lives are full already. We don’t have time for more things. We don’t have money for more things, or don’t need more things either.

What we need is less. Less destructive habits. Less negative thinking. Less stress.

So let’s think about what we shouldn’t do, instead of what we should do. Because — as I’m certain you know from experience — knowing that we “should do” something doesn’t mean we’ll actually do it.

Here is my Not-To-Do List for 2021.

In 2021, I do not want to …

1. Let external validation define my sense of self-value